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My first impression [New Player]
JK-Kanosi
Member Posts: 1,357
Before the Game:
I tried the Digital Download and kept getting errors. Every error cost me about 4-7 hours of downloading time. I finally had enough and bought the box from a store.
The download from the box was relatively fast. The box included a buddy key, a map, and a booklet to help introduce you to the game.
Patch time was a big problem. It took nearly around 13 hours for the game to patch on my DSL connection.
Vanguard forums have plenty of helpful people, not too many trolls. An overall good experience there as well.
SOE seems to be communicating well with its customer base. A relief from prior SOE experiences.
After Starting:
Character creation is moderate. Plenty of things to customize including body proportions, size, hair color, etc.
Numerous amount of races and classes to choose from.
Plenty of starting areas.
I ran the game anywhere from 5-20FPS, which is actually pretty well. That FPS didn't hamper or hinder my gameplay.
My graphics setting is on the one below Balanced (Performance I think). I kept Texture at Medium, which is fair.
I didn't do .ini tweaks, nor do I feel a gamer should have to.
The game is pretty straight forward in nature. It is traditional in the sense that you push on a skills/specials to attack and you can get quests to complete for xp and rewards. There are solo and group quests so far.
This game has some complexity and depth to it. WoW is a game where a MMORPG player can learn it in a day. This game takes more time to learn, but is more rewarding as well.
The community is nice overall and helpfull. You do have some people on region chat that can't help but be smartasses. But if you let that roll off you and reply with something witty, they soften up and turn out to be nice people. So good communication skills help in this game.
I've had one crash to desktop.
Summary:
This game is your run of the mill fantasy MMORPG with a few new or not too often used features that make it worth playing over its predesessors. Those familiar with the MMORPG design will find it easy to get into. Those that are sociable people will find people to talk to. You don't see a lot of people, but I was in the starting area. However, with region chat, you can speak to everyone on your continent, which is pretty active. There are graphical anomilies in this game that will pester you now and again, but nothing that I see as game breaking. I feel that people have exagerated this games unplayability because this is my system and I am running it:
Intel Dual Core 3.0ghz; 1gig of 500mhz RAM; Geforce 7300LE 512mb video card.
I do have a new 7950GT video card on the way along with 3 gigs of 667ghz RAM. So I do expect to be able to play this game on slightly better settings.
This game does have a Beta feel, but is worth the trouble if you are bored of you Fantasy MMORPG and want something to grow into and with.
Thank you,
I am open to questions now. I promise to answer truthfully and without bias. I've played just about every MMORPG out there, so I have plenty of experience to draw upon for comparrison questions.
MMORPG's w/ Max level characters: DAoC, SWG, & WoW
Currently Playing: WAR
Preferred Playstyle: Roleplay/adventurous, in a sandbox game.
Comments
Where's the cancel button?
We are now 6 months after release and it's still a lore lacking lifeless world with dead cities, still many crappy place holder textures here and there, no world shadows, no reflective water, no water population, no world particle effects, etc... which are all common features even in free games like Perfect World (has territorial battles and free flight which VG still can't get to work) or Silkroads.
The game has potential though, hopefully in 1 year it will be out of beta and fun to play.
The new componants will let you run it at max settings. I have that vid card and love it. I do wonder why you wouldnt make a simple ini. settings change when it's such a easy thing to get alot of performance gains. PC are so varied in their configurations that is impossible for a game of this complexity to be perfectly tuned to each one.
Flying mounts have been in the game for some time now. Albeit they aren't ownable, but from the info that SoE has released they are finishing up the quest line to get an ownable one.
So yeah, flying mounts work in the game.
Not sure where you get your info from, or why you would make things up.
Wish Darkfall would release.
Flying mounts have been in the game for some time now. Albeit they aren't ownable, but from the info that SoE has released they are finishing up the quest line to get an ownable one.
So yeah, flying mounts work in the game.
So let me get this straight; Sentences 1 and 2 say that the mounts are in the game but are just for show- players can't use these mounts.
Sentence 3, now they work? WHA???
Either you can have a flying mount or you can't. As it stands AT THIS TIME, as the poster stated CORRECTLY, ther are no PLAYER flying mounts. Hmmm, maybe he got his information from the game?
The mounts are in the game that can fly.
As a player, can I have a flying mount at this time?? Yes or no.
You can rent a flying mount, you control it for a specefic amount of time, I forget the interveral.
They aren't really mounts unless you can..... well, mount them. The mounts in the game do not fly, the flying mobs can not be mounted. The game has flying, and mounts... but you can't own a mount that flys.
.Off topic... have they even gotten helms working yet?
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Flying mounts have been in the game for some time now. Albeit they aren't ownable, but from the info that SoE has released they are finishing up the quest line to get an ownable one.
So yeah, flying mounts work in the game.
Not sure where you get your info from, or why you would make things up.
No, sorry, flying mounts do not work.
Since 10 months ago in beta every time you cross a chunk while flying, the mount disappears in mid-air so you fall to the ground and you die.
This is the reason why we still can't get flying mounts and it has nothing to do with a "missing quest line". For the last year Sigil and SOE have been unable to fix the crappy engine to make this work. The mount try outs that are now "finally" in the game are there to show us a nice feature which was promised on the game's box, but still isn't available.
As long as its in the patch notes?
LOL! you are kidding, right?
The check is in the mail!
We will do lunch!
I'll give you a call!
Hahaha, yes Brotherhoods are now in the latest patch notes. Cheers bro, I have contributed with my 50 bucks in January so Brad Mcquaid could enjoy his Ferrari
(sorry)
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Playing: Rogue
Played: AO, CoH, DAoC, EQII, Horizons, Planetside, SWG
Tested: AC2, Lineage II, Vanguard, WoW...and more
That seems to be pretty stupid now doesn't it. If you don't like the game you should not really subscribe to it.
SUbscribing to a game as a social wellfare support is one of the stupidest ideas I have ever heard. Not to bright are you?
I'm so broke. I can't even pay attention.
"You have the right not to be killed"
That seems to be pretty stupid now doesn't it. If you don't like the game you should not really subscribe to it.
SUbscribing to a game as a social wellfare support is one of the stupidest ideas I have ever heard. Not to bright are you?
It's called sarcasm. And it doesn't work any better when you try to use it.
That seems to be pretty stupid now doesn't it. If you don't like the game you should not really subscribe to it.
SUbscribing to a game as a social wellfare support is one of the stupidest ideas I have ever heard. Not to bright are you?
It's called sarcasm. And it doesn't work any better when you try to use it.
Yep, true.
I'm so broke. I can't even pay attention.
"You have the right not to be killed"
Orphes! how you doing? haven't seen you around in a while. Ive missed you.
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Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
Lao-Tze
If DnL can do it why can't SOE? I believe DnL had flying mounts since launch and has a larger world with no chunck lines, it really is a poor show that Vanguard can't do this despite being a 3rd Gen MMO. However VG has boats which DnL doesn't due to much the same p[roblem ironicaly, you can't get in a boat in water as you get knocked out if you try to sail. Maybe the DEVs of VG and DnL could get together and brainstorm?
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience"
CS Lewis
And you can do all that as a player.
What he's talking about is OWNABLE, as in a permenent item. Currently after 5 min the mount goes away.
They are currently working on the quest lines for the ownable flying mounts.
Flying mounts work, they are in game, just not ownable yet.
Wish Darkfall would release.
Regardless. It's still innovative and beautiful and worth a try at least.
my pic: http://world6.monstersgame.co.uk/?ac=vid&vid=114247552
Yup. Flying mounts in game and working.
http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/post/1408514#1408514
Wish Darkfall would release.
I don't play Vanguard for the same reason I don't play EQ, EQ2, WoW, LotRO, DAoC.
I simply want PvE-grouping gameplay to be FREE from foreign gameplays. Vanguard is a nightmare on this topic, enforcing Raiding and tradeskills. Sure, someone could group to some extand which include max level, but that isn't even remotedly close to be enough for someone like me, grouping must rule supreme.
When devs can't commit to groupers; I can't commit to their game.
- "If I understand you well, you are telling me until next time. " - Ren
At this time, every person in the game who can spend 20 silver can rent a flyable mount for travel. It is free flight, in that you direct the mount rather than it being on an invisible track.
They have the graphics and the mechanics working for ownable, flyable mounts. The only thing lacking is the appropriate content to obtain one.
At this time, only an idiot would think that ownable flying mounts would never show up in the game.
So, yet another way to answer this question is, "Yes, there is an abundance of evidence that would indicate if you start a toon today on Vanguard, by the time you get to the right level to run the flying mount quest, the flying mount quest will be there".
Now however, if you want to start a toon at level 1 and buy a flying mount that very day; every mmorpg in the world is going to be letting you down.